I mainly collect 40mm metal figures of hardened metal alloy, in 1978 I started to collect metal figures, first only Ferrero but later on also Landrin, Bronze Collection, Soldatiki Publius, Septima Miniature and Artel Master. Because I have a large network of fellow collectors and traders,

In my website you can of course buy metalfigures but I also give information about metal figures, such as the different marks/manufacturers and the look-a-likes ( these are figures which were made legaly by other manufacturers) also look-a-likes are not fake figures.

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Fake figures: as of the year 2000 there have been appearing large numbers of fake figures on the market.

Personally I collect just the original metal figures but because there is so much obscurity about fake figures against the original figures I nevertheless pay attention to these fake figures on the website of Catawiki, in this way you will be well informed at any rate before you will buy a figure.

There are different kinds of fake figures; a fake figure can be a self-casted figure (=in an alloy of less quality) or a self-casted figure in another colour which was never released by manufacturer. A fake can be the same as the original figure but then with an addition (for example a pirate with a parrot on his shoulder) Potter

But a fake figure can also be an original figure with another colour, they do this through painting the figure or manipulating the original colour with chemicals Color counterfeiters. This is done because the “rare” colour is of higher value then the original colour and therefore they can ask more money for the figure.